MINERVA: Metastasis

Pervasive. Literary. Brutal. Experimental. MINERVA, by Adam Foster, takes you to a remote island under the control of Combine forces. Something is going on here. Your goal is to uncover what that is and destroy it. Oh, yes-- and try to survive.

I tried clicking "Install" and "Play Game" on the store page, although it says it requires to own the base game: "Half-Life 2: Episode 1".
I have BOTH, I have Half-Life 2, it comes with both episodes, Lost Coast, and Deathmatch! Do I really need to buy Ha...

I don't even have the game yet, but while browsing my discovery queue, it popped up, and now it's the only game Steam will show me.
I click on the discovery queue, this game is displayed and then my queue ends. I start again and again the only game offe...

Hi,
I'm not at all familiar with the issues around porting HL2 mods to other platforms, but would it be possible to release a Mac build / version of this? I'm kinda hoping this is relatively little effort for experienced mod-makers! :)

This mod is basically a little side story of the Half-Life series. Do you play as Gordon Freeman? Possibly, but the game never explains who you are or who you're working for. The game plays pretty much like Half-Life 2 but the difficulty is ramped up with stronger enemies which you gotta put down hard. There are also way more of them. I found myself getting surrounded if I moved forward too quickly. The game has some challenging puzzles that you'll have to think outside the Half-Life box to progress. The game looks great and the music really builds on the atmospere the developers created. One thing that really makes this game stand out is the level design. Very good use of the environments which feel more like the original Half-Life.

I highly recommend giving this one a go if you are a Half-Life fan. Even if you haven't played through the half-life series I would still recommend this game.

A pretty great mod, pretty solidly captures Half-Life 2's atmosphere and even expands on it a little. The atmosphere is pretty insane, probably the best out of any mod for HL2 to date. The level design itself is very well done, though it's pretty easy to get lost early on. The story, while nothing spectacular, is still interesting at times and the messages sent are well-written and overall the pacing is perfect. In the end, it's basically just more Half-Life 2, but that's kind of a good thing.

Honestly, I can't give much of a comprehensive review for this game, because I played it for one or two days back when it came out, and then got stuck on one of the levels and didn't play it the rest of the way through. From what I played, though, it shows that a heap of effort went into making this mod, and I did enjoy what I played. I'll go as far as to say I would buy it if it were on the store for somewhere around $15.